[Erwin]

That CS student was Luke Farritor -- now part of the infamous DOGE team.

[SV_BubbleTime]

I get the ideologues here being mad… but I don’t get mad to the point where people need to pretend this guy isn’t highly intelligent. Doesn’t it make it better that there are really sharp people on the “DOGE” team.

Shouldn’t people be more mad at dummies doing it?

[xhevahir]

It's good that smart people are involved if we take it at face value that they're trying increase "government efficiency," as opposed to, say, dismantling the welfare and regulatory state; if the latter are their aim, and if we don't want them to accomplish such a goal, we should not be cheered to learn that they're such clever lads.

[ryeights]

Who is saying he isn’t intelligent? And can’t smart people do bad things?

[flir]

I'm not mad I'm just disappointed.

So much potential and he dropped out of school to become a Thiel/Musk minion.